• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Nah dude, i am just not an ideologue. I don’t view politics as one side good, other side bad. I don’t treat politics as if it’s religion where we must shun and kill the non-believers.

    And sadly that is a perspective so called ‘open minded tolerant’ leftists cannot abide. the possibility that maybe they are just as wrong and stupid as the people they hate because their politics is governed by belief and tribalism above all else. and how totally alienating that is the average person goes right over their heads, because they are true believers who think belief it and of itself justified all their shitty actions and words towards non-believers.

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      "Im totally not an idealogue, I’m totally open minded, thats why I can safely say that liberals are evilbad and republicans are flawless and love and respect everyone equally, despite 15 mount everests of facts and proof showing otherwise. Also its totally the democrats that want to kill non-believers, its totally not my pure, loving republican party that wants to do that. "

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        i never said any of that, but i’m glad you can’t take any criticsm of the leftism without devolving it into good vs evil. which is precisely why young men are anti-left. they don’t want to be told how evil they are. nobody does.

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          Yeah, Thats why young people are anti-left.

          It has nothing to do with the fact that there are entire youtube and facebook groups engineered for and dedicated to funneling the vulneralbe into the right wing hate machine, and how every one of them has family members concerned and saying they changed and became so hateful after starting to listen to whatever right wing predator dejure they picked up.

          No no, its the evil left, for being super evil with their calling out republican nonsense, propaganda, and lies.

          Truly, Republicans are the greatest, most oppressed victims on earth. Even Jesus weeps for the unfair cruelty of their plight.

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              Yes, both sides are the same.

              Ones creating concentration camps and disappearing people… and the other wants you to have healthcare.

              I see literally no difference in these sides.

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                  5 hours ago

                  Yeah yeah, I am all too familiar with that game of “Oh sure, I said X in so many words, but I didnt say X specifically, there for you are wrong and I am the poor victim”. My bitch grandmother pulls the same shit.

                  You should get new material.

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                    Except… I really didn’t say that “both sides are the same”. This claim - in the context of politics, at least - usually mean one of two (quite similar) propositions:

                    1. Party A, which is now in power, enacted a questionable policy - but if Party B was in power instead in a similar situation it’d do a similar thing.
                      • Variation - this can also be claimed about something the party not in power does as an opposition.
                    2. Party A used some questionable methods to increase its power - but Party B is also using some similarly questionable methods to gain power.

                    Since the topic here is shifts in the political views of various demographics - the second proposition is the more relevant one.

                    Both sides are very much not the same here. One side is pushing while the other is pulling. Pushing and pulling is not the same thing - they are opposite things. I hope you understand that, and that you are not struggling with operating doors. I did not say that both conservatives and progressives are using similar methods to gain influence here, because that’s not true. It’s not true even if you remove the word “similar” because progressives are not using methods to gain influence - they are using methods to lose influence.

                    Also, when I said that the Left - and not just the Right - is also contributing to this trend, I was not doing it to imply that both sides share the blame for this trend. I reject that proposition. The blame here goes 100% to the Left[1]! The winning side does not need to reflect on why it is winning[2] - and when the losing side reflects on why it is losing, making its conclusion about the wining side’s tactics is not very helpful unless its for coming up with ways to counter these methods - which I’m not seeing done here.

                    These men feel rejected by the Left, and the Right is taking advantage of these feelings. Both sides are not the same here - only one side is competent.


                    1. Technically these are two different “pools” of blame - each side has responsibility toward itself to gain power, and gains blame if it loses influence. But since the Right is not losing influence here, there is zero blame in its “pool” - and whatever percentage of the blame the left takes from its own “pool” is 100% percent of the total blame taken from both “pools” (whether or not they can be added together is not important, since one of them is zero) ↩︎

                    2. I mean, it can, if it wants to figure out what it did right so it can keep doing it. And despite winning - the winning side may have also done some mistakes and can benefit from reflecting on them. But this reflection does not carry the same meaning as the losing side reflecting on its loss. ↩︎

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      Look at you. You’re blaming an entity for ‘abandoning’ you.

      You know who doesn’t sit around being bitter and live in fragile worry about being abandoned?

      People who actually reach out and deal with their mental health and take some ownership over it.

      Doesn’t sound like the right are helping you. Sounds like they are Just feeding you a victimhood complex.

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        i don’t support the right or the left. they are both largely ignorant ideologies that most get off on opposing each other than caring about real people and real problems.

        you realize that is a possibility, i hope. i’m a big gay weirdo who thinks everyone has the right to be happy and secure, no matter their beliefs or identity. i dont’ regard happiness and security to be awarded to people based on their political beliefs.